Thursday, November 20, 2008

Policy Snack: Withdrawing the Bureaucrats and the Media from Iraq

I should acknowledge that there a few good apples in there, but I believe they are helpless in getting much good done when facing the bureaucracies of State and the CIA. The media, well, are plain crap. I can't think of one foreign journalist who's worked in Iraq for the last six months that I can respect. Once upon a time I had high hopes for the Iraqi stringers and fixers working with the major bureaus in Baghdad, and how they'd use those experiences to build a vibrant and free local press in the future, until I realized that those young Iraqis were being trained by the worst crop of ego-driven, activist reporters the profession has produced in a long time. Internships at the National Inquirer would have yielded better results.

8 Comments:

gj said...

Nibras, am taking issue with your sledge of the Brits for ceding power to the Sadrists et al? An exercise in brutal, cynical reality it may have been, but consigning the good citizens of Basra, Maysan etc to the unrelieved experience of sharia law, religious courts and the predations of vicious adolescant thugs had them eventually greeting the Iraqi Army as liberators, did it not? - just as the Sunnis experience of the benign rule of AlqI led them to renounce the jihad?

For sure, the Brits made a lot of mistakes, but in the end it was the Iraqis themselves who had to take the power back into their own hands.

imo, the US/Brit great contribution to the new Iraq was in firstly disbandoning the Baath army and party, then in training the ISF to a level of competence in the face of a relentless insurgency and finally the perseverance of Bush and Blair under extraordinary domestic political pressure to abandon the new Iraq.

Your comments about the Iraqi stringers and fixers was very sad. The performance of the western media in Baghdad plumbed the depths and as a one-time journo gave me pain.

The press in Iraq gave the the rest of the western press more reasons to implode - God bless the credit crisis for hastening the demise of the Marxist propaganda machine. It's a silver lining in the cloud.

In reality, almost almost all colors enables you vbnfuyt to brush or perhaps tint prescribed oakley frogskins . Generally, cheap Oakley sunglasses virtual test can become fallen directly into several sorts and different online vendors could have their distinct ones. oakley frogskins can be abbreviated directly into "try-on" or perhaps "virtual try-on". In any manner, one can easily open this kind of item when he desires to choose his / her beloved low-cost oakley jawbone . Another extremely professional low-cost Oakley sunglasses virtual test is founded on the info of peoples' faces and also heads. Such test oakley flak jacket will be professional and also complicated, yet very correct. Some blanks concerning people's face can be filled, like the length, size, height with the face, brow, and a great many other oakley radar

It really is ideal for kfghjeib oneself obtain a couple of oakley frogskins seeking the particular phenomenon regarding trend. The particular on-line spectacles go shopping have got offered numerous kinds regarding from suppliers oakley frogskins regarding sporting activities fans pick, it is possible to pick these hinge within your specifications. The particular from suppliers oakley jawbone are usually added looks including the fit greater than Oakley sunglasses mainly because many inside players wear the identical while participating in so oakley flak jacket really need to fit greater than sorts. You need to have witnessed cricketers gaining dozens of spectacular couple of colors about industry.People couple of colors will be called oakley radar together with tinted polycarbonate contact lenses. The particular excellent couple of from suppliers Oakley sunglasses will be venture excellent within the economy given that they are usually available with a great attractive benefit series. You have to be mindful once you pick from suppliers Oakley sunglasses to perform athletics routines.

The earliest designs were preotwuq simple affairs, often mere "Roger Vivier " of leather to protect the feet from rocks, debris, and cold. Since vivier shoes use more leather than sandals, their use was more common in cold climates. By the Middle Ages, turn-vivier shoes had been developed with toggled flaps or drawstrings to tighten the leather around the foot for a better fit. As Europe gained in wealth and power, fancy roger vivier heels became status symbols. Toes became long and pointed, often to ridiculous proportions. Artisans created unique footwear for rich patrons, and new styles developed. Eventually the modern roger vivier flats , with a sewn-on sole, was devised. Since the 17th century, most leather roger vivier pumps have used a sewn-on sole. This remains the standard for finer-quality dress vivier shoes today. Until around 1800, vivier shoes were made without differentiation for the left or right foot. Such roger vivier sale are now referred to as "straights".[citation needed] Only gradually did the modern foot-specific vivier shoes become standard.Since the mid-20th Century, advances in rubber, plastics, synthetic cloth, and industrial adhesives have allowed manufacturers to create roger vivier chaussures that stray considerably from traditional crafting techniques.